100th Day

100th Day Challenge

February 5, 2018 by Jodi 3 Comments

A couple of weeks ago, we had our 100th Day of School. It is always such a fun day, and one that the students look forward to. Along with the traditional things that I have done for the past couple of years for the 100th Day of School, I added in the 100th Day of School Challenge. This was set up just like the Christmas Challenge.

I love these challenges because my students have to work cooperatively together to solve 10 academic challenges. After they solve a challenge, they earn a challenge ticket envelope. Inside of the envelope is a mystery word that they have to solve using the code. It is amazing how excited they get when they earn each of their tickets.

It’s an easy to prep activity that the students love, and they don’t even realize they are learning.

“My students loved the challenges. They even begged to skip indoor recess to keep working on them! So engaging!” -Alyssa

“AHHHH!!! My students are going to LOVE this! They love teamwork & challenges! I can’t wait to use this on our 100th Day! -Jennifer

What is included in the challenge?

★Directions for the Challenge
★10 academic challenges (math and language arts based)
★10 Challenge Tickets
★10 Corresponding Envelope Labels
★100th Day Challenge Code
★Answer Key

Check out the 100th Day Challenge by clicking the picture below.

Need more 100th Day of School ideas? Check out this 100th Day of School blog post from last year.

Our 100th Day of School

January 28, 2016 by Jodi 2 Comments

Monday was our 100th Day of School. I meant to share these pictures on Monday night, but life threw a huge curveball at me and it’s been a really rough week.

I decided to break my students up into 4 groups after some inspiration from my friend Cara at The First Grade Parade. I had them complete 100 day themed activities at each station.

We made gumball machines at one of our stations. I bought a package of paint dobbers and my students put 100 dots on their paper plates. Then, they filled in the bottom of their gumball machine.

It was definitely challenging for a couple of them to keep track of how many gumballs they had made. We talked about how to organize ourselves when doing this project. For example, make 10 green dots, then 10 yellow dots, etc. You can grab the free gumball machine download by clicking HERE.

One of their favorite stations, which again, I found on The First Grade Parade, was the cup station. I placed 100 red solo cups on the carpet and let them work together to build away. They LOVED it!

Another group worked on 100 day necklaces that we bought from Really Good Stuff.

At the last station, I placed 100 pattern blocks in bags. Each student at the station had their own bag to create whatever they wanted.

Later on in the day, we completed activities from my 100 Day Booklet. You can click on the picture below to check it out.

Happy 100th day!

Our 100th Day

January 24, 2013 by Jodi 16 Comments

Yesterday was our 100th Day of School. This is always such a fun day. It seemed to sneak up so early this year for some reason.

We began our day with some 100th day morning work.

We usually do our Common Core Morning Work packet, so this was a surprising change for them.

We also made these fun hats.

Each student had 10 strips of paper. I placed white paint in the middle of each table and the students put 10 fingerprints on each strip.

They loved it and since it was only one finger, it wasn’t too messy. The hardest part is going around and stapling it all. If you can get some help with stapling all the hats together, I highly recommend it.

The rest of the morning consisted of working on our 100 Day packets.